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Beautiful and Damned
By Stas Voras
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald,, wife of famous writer F.Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most standing, tragic, and mythical figures of the Jazz Age. The Sayre-Fitzgerald marriage was a famous person unto itself. Everyone obscurely common with the 1920s has heard the stories—Zelda getting guests in her bath, Zelda and Scott leaping into the Union Square Fountain, riding on top of taxis, passing out together after getting plastered at a party. They were the golden couple of a golden age, so famed that every exploit was printed in the paper, so famous that their Union Square adventure was painted on the curtain of the 1922 Greenwich Village Follies. Zelda described the bedlam: “Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef’s headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.
Generally, biographers and mates have captured the edge of one of the partners, at one extreme endorsing Hemingway’s view that Zelda was a psychopath who subverted Scott’s sexual and artistic self-confidence and discharged him emotionally and economically, and at another visual perception Scott as a barbarian who swarm Zelda mad and eliminated her chances to succeed as an artist in her own right. Both books take a more balanced approach, blaming neither partner; but the selection from the Fitzgeralds’ correspondence edited by Jackson Bryers and Cathy Barks, and pre-emptively called “love letters”, repeats the myth of a great and timeless romance, while the exhaustively researched biography by Sally Cline powerfully undermines it.
Without making Scott the evil doer, Cline claims that both partners were victims of a social system and psychological practice that beaten creative women, especially those married to creative men. Cline points out that Zelda’s hospital letters – which form the bulk of her side of the correspondence – were censored by her caretakers, and have to be seen as written by a prisoner to her jailer. |
F.Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
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